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Friday, 29 July 2011

Book Lovers' Quiz - July 2011

I regularly team up with fellow blogger and all round bibliophilic good egg Norfolk Bookworm to host a book quiz at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library.

For those who can't be there, those who just like testing their quizzing acumen, and those wanting to test the water before booking, here are the questions. (Answers are in white below the question: highlight the - apparently - blank space to see them)

Enjoy! And good luck.

Round 1: Over the Rainbow

1)Which author, best known for creating the character Jack Ryan, wrote Rainbow Six?

A: Tom Clancy

2)Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City are set in which city?

A: San Fransisco

3)Which doubting scientist wrote “Unweaving the Rainbow”?

A: Richard Dawkins

4)Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories form the basis of which famous musical?

A: Caberet

5)D H Lawrence wrote the novel The Rainbow in 1915, but what do the initials D H stand for?

A: David Herbert

6)What is not the only fruit?

A: Oranges

7)The daughter of which Irish Prime Minsiter wrote Where Rainbows End and PS I Love You?

A: Bertie Ahern

8)The Oscar winning film Brokeback Mountain was originally short story by which author?

A: Annie Proulx

9)Gravity’s Rainbow has been summarised as a “a blizzard of references to science, history, high culture and the lowest of jokes” Who wrote it?

A: Thomas Pynchon

10)Who wrote the poem that starts “My Heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky”

A: Wordsworth

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Round 2: Here, There, and Everywhere

1 – What is the name of Sebastian Flyte’s palatial home in Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel?

A: Brideshead

2 - Which two places connect Dickens Tale of Two Cities with Orwell’s Down and Out?

A: London and Paris

3 – In which city is the first of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brody Case Histories novels set?

A: Cambridge

4 – Bruce Chatwin’s 1980s bestseller, The Songlines, is about which country?

A: Australia

5 – From where do the pilgrims depart in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales?

A: Southwark

6 - What is the capital of hell as described in John Milton’s ’Paradise Lost’?

A: Pandaemonium

7 - In the first Winnie the Pooh book Christopher Robin leads an expedition (or expotition as he puts it) to find which well-known geographical location?

A: The North Pole

8: Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is partially set in which Caribbean country, whose history is paralleled with that of Middle Earth?

A: Dominican Republic

9. What is the name of the other house in the Wuthering Heights estate, formerly the home of the Linton family?

A: Thrushcross Grange

10 - Which author wrote about the fictional region of Wessex?

A: Thomas Hardy

Round 3: Trees

1 - What tree do Harry and Ron fly a Ford Anglia into in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?

A: Whomping willow

2 - In which New York suburb does a tree grow according to the author Betty Smith?

A: Brooklyn

3 - Where do Moonface, Silky, dame Washalot and the Saucepan-Man live?

A: The Magic Farway Tree

4 - According to the Arabian legend which tree was plucked up by the devil who then thrust its branches into the earth and left its roots in the air?

A: The Baobab

5 - The dryads were the nymphs of the forest according to Greek mythology but which Goddess were they the companions of?

A: Artmeis

6 - Which fruit tree orchard features in the title of a play by Chekhov?

A: The Cherry

7 - Which play is set in the imaginary village of Llareggub?

A: Under Milk Wood

8 - What are the sentient trees known as in Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings?

A: Ents

9 - When the Greenwoods Laugh is the 4th book featuring the Larkin family by which author?

A: H.E Bates

10 - Who had a Little House in the Big Woods?

A: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Round 4: Sport

1 – Which French author, who played goalkeeper for Racing Universitaire d’Alger Junior Team in the 1920’s, later said:

“After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport.”

A: Albert Camus

2 – Joseph O’Neill’s Richard and Judy selected book Netherland features attempts to introduce which sport back to America?

A: Cricket

3 - In his 1975 biography, what did Muhammed Ali claim he did with the Gold Medal he won at the 1960 Rome Olympics?A: Throw it in a river

4 – What blight on sport is satirised in the 12th Asterix comic, Asterix at the Olympic Games ?

A: The use of performance enhancing drugs

5 – David Peace’s novel, The Damned Utd, recently made into a film staring Michael Sheen, is about which famous football manager